Compression Formats

Dirac

H.263

H.264

This compression format appears to have the most support behind it right now including possibly being the main HTML5 video format. This compression format is patented but currently no royalties are charged for 'free to end users' applications. If we choose this format, we could be stuck with having to license and pay royalties for distributing our H.264 content (after 2016 according to http://www.mpegla.com/Lists/MPEG%20LA%20News%20List/Attachments/226/n-10-02-02.pdf).